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Cancer! Dr. Rob returns as our expert for the big ‘C’. We discuss how jabbing radioactive beads in your prostate works, how mustard gas led to chemotherapy, “soot wart,” [...]

Costumes, the confusing origins of Halloween customs, Devil’s night, old-fashioned candy vs. chocolate bars, candy-poisoning urban legends and of course Halloween movies and television [...]

A brief history of axes and notable murders, news items, movies, comics and “The Lesser of Two Evils”: murder by axe or murder by sword? Music: “Butcher Pete” by Roy Brown [...]

Go vote at http://www.podcastawards.com/ — we’re in both the “Education” and “Best Produced” podcasts. You can vote once/day until the awards are finished!

Caustic Soda is a labor of larva! Get to know the bot, tsetse, tumbu, bat and coffin fly, not to mention screw worm, sheep ked and ant decapitator. Also – what is myiasis? All this plus [...]

Special guests science fiction legend Larry Niven and Buffy/Angel/Firefly editor Lisa Lassek join Kevin, Joe, and Toren at Vancouver’s VCON! We cover the dysfunctional tech society of Terry [...]

E-Coli, Salmonella, gut bacteria social networks (no, really!) and lots more infectious awesomeness! Jenna Capyk joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren for a podcast so chock full of prokaryotes it’s [...]

It’s Fünf for the whole Familie! More shark, crocodile AND bear attacks, self surgery, decapitations, Chinese internet addiction boot camps, art made of pee and poo, armadillo leprosy. All [...]

Wow! Larry Niven to guest on Caustic Soda! Wow! Please nominate us for the Podcast Awards. For strategy’s sake, nominate Caustic Soda in the “Education” and “Best [...]

Caution, cyprianophobes! Katie Scoular doles out the facts on three of the most common STIs: the slang, the history, and the science. Plus news, pop culture and “The Lesser of Two [...]